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Everybody Loves the Sunshine is just one point of perfection in Roy Ayers’ astonishing catalogue

Ayers’ genre-bending jazz-funk sound produced one fantastic album after another – and then found a new lease of life in hip-hop sampling

The Guardian - UK

"This makes no sense at all in terms of functional harmony. So why does it sound so good?: A music professor breaks down Doechii's Denial Is a River and Boiled Peanuts

Following the rap phenom's Grammy win for Best Rap Album, our resident music professor puts two of Doechii's best songs under the musical microscope

MusicRadar

The Chronicles of Doom review – unmasking hip-hop’s peerless prankster

SH Fernando Jr’s exhaustive biography of MF Doom takes us on the underground rapper’s strange musical journey from New York suburb to Yorkshire social club

The Guardian - UK

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Two Shell: The mysterious duo teasing their fans with stunts and disappearing songs

They’re cultivating a loyal fanbase despite their habit of removing songs within days of release. Finn Cliff Hodges delves into the appeal of the allusive electronic duo

The Independent UK

A highly debatable ranking of the 14 greatest rappers of all time

This was the closest we could get our staff to at least sort of agreeing.

USA Today Sports Media Group

‘I love and hate Bruno Mars at the same time’: Babatunde Aléshé’s honest playlist

The comedian is a fan of Fela Kuti and has mixed feelings about a certain uptown-funking hitmaker – but who did he most want to be growing up?

The Guardian - UK

Hospital says sorry for substandard care after death of London-born rapper MF Doom

Acclaimed underground rap artist died after suffering allergic reaction to medication he received in hospital

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Rapper MF Doom's tragic final days as fresh details of Leeds hospital death emerge

MF Doom, real name Dumile Daniel Thompson, died aged 49 in October 2020. His wife Jasmine broke the news on social media with a tribute on his Instagram page

Daily Mirror

Leeds hospital trust apologises over death of rapper MF Doom saying care was ‘not to standard’

Rapper’s brain was starved of oxygen caused by allergic reaction to blood pressure medicine

The Independent UK

Leeds hospital trust apologises after rapper MF Doom died in its care

London-born musician Dumile Daniel Thompson, 49, had a lack of oxygen to his brain after a reaction to a blood pressure drug

The Guardian - UK

Devastated wife of famous rapper has unanswered question about his sudden death

Daniel Thompson who performed under the stage name MF Doom was being treated in hospital when he suffered a 'rare' reaction from prescription blood pressure medicine.

Daily Record

De La Soul on their belated streaming debut: ‘It felt like we were being erased from history’

Speaking before the death of founder member Trugoy the Dove, Posdnuos and Maseo answer your questions on playing Glastonbury, working with MF Doom and and utilising the power of an infectious laugh

The Guardian - UK

Danger Mouse and Black Thought: Cheat Codes review – an out-and-out hip-hop masterpiece

Razor-sharp US rapper Black Thought and his one-time acolyte, now super-producer, Danger Mouse, finally get it together on an album that’s a nonstop joy

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